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Lambert named editorial director of Fortune Education

Lance Lambert

Fortune magazine editor in chief Clifton Leaf sent out the following announcement on Thursday afternoon:

Fortune has a long history of finding and recognizing talent from within—and so it is with great pleasure that I announce that Lance Lambert has been promoted again, this time to Editorial Director of Fortune Education, our soon-to-be-launched platform designed to help business professionals continue learning and find the new skills that will propel their careers. For several months now, as some of you know, Lance has been pulling triple-duty—doing his twin “day jobs” of producing the Fortune Analytics newsletter and writing smart, newsy, audience-guzzling stories for the site, while simultaneously creating an editorial framework for our new education-focused subdomain on Fortune.com. And with this latest promotion, we’re making this third role not only official, but Job No. 1.

We’ll share more about Fortune Education very soon, but for now I can say that it will be a hub for Fortune’s education coverage overall as well as home to our forthcoming rankings on higher education programs—starting with our list of Best Online MBAs, debuting later this month. Lance will also continue to run our polling and write Fortune Analytics, the premium subscriber-only data newsletter he built and launched in 2020. Since joining Fortune in 2019, Lance has covered everything from the COVID-19 recession to housing and the work-from-home transformation. After graduating from the University of Cincinnati with a B.A. in economics and journalism, Lance was a data journalist at realtor.com, Bloomberg (where he managed the Best Business School rankings), and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Please join me in congratulating Lance.

CL

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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